Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?
Has received OCM’s Odontornithes memoir. Believes his work affords the best support to evolution that has appeared in the last 20 years.
CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.
Sends a statement of the assets of the Down Friendly Society. Asks for advice on consulting an actuary.
Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.
Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.
Forwards some tables on behalf of the Down Friendly Society and discusses the changes in benefits requested by the members.
Thanks for his book on the formation and division of cells.
Discusses matters relating to the Down Friendly Society.
Dispatches a chapter [of Movement in plants] for FD to look over.
Invites him to lunch.
Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.
Thanks HHH for essay.
Describes disposition of cirripede specimens.
WCW’s specimens are interesting, but CD thinks the slowness of the change might have been expected.
Honoured by offer of medal from Chester Natural History Society, but if he is expected to attend in person to receive it he regrets he must decline. Asks TMH to decide for him.
JBI’s "barnacles" would have been extraordinary, but they are hard lichens.
Has revisited Cambridge.
Asks GHD to decipher a letter [in German] he has received with a book: The Bible in science.
Enjoyed his stay in Cambridge extremely.
Explains how to reach Down.
CD is sorry for the trouble TMH has had. Fully approves of the rule [that the medal be awarded to a local worker?]. The knowledge that the Chester Natural History Society wished to honour him is the real gratification, which he will never forget.
Thanks correspondent for information on a plant. It is too late for his present work.